talk a lot 1 role plays work

“This company’s not made of money!” Place: Your boss’s office Time: 10.44am Characters: You and your boss Situation: You haven’t had a pay rise for two years.. You work hard and do plent

Talk a Lot

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Role Plays:

1 “This company’s not made of money!”

Place: Your boss’s office

Time: 10.44am

Characters: You and your boss

Situation: You haven’t had a pay rise for two years You work hard and do plenty of

overtime, so after a lot of thought you decide to pluck up courage to ask your boss for a pay rise

Scenes: i) You ask your boss for a pay rise They don’t make a decision but ask you

to come back at 4pm with a list of ten good reasons why they should give you

a pay rise ii) It’s 4pm and you return to see your boss You read out your list but they still don’t want to give you a pay rise In fact, they ask you to do more overtime

iii) One hour later you are in the lift going to the ground floor Your boss gets

in as well, eating a salmon baguette You are alone together Suddenly they begin choking on a piece of salmon Do you help?

If there are three people in the group the third character could be:

a) Your boss’s secretary

b) A colleague at work who doesn’t like you and also wants a pay rise

2 “How could you do a thing like that?”

Place: The staff canteen at your workplace

Time: 5.40pm

Characters: You and a work colleague

Situation: At the end of a very long day you go into the staff canteen to get your

sandwich box from the fridge Scenes: i) You witness a colleague stealing money from the employees’ holiday fund

tin You know that they have got financial problems at home They don’t know that you saw them

ii) The next day everybody is talking about who could have stolen £45 from the holiday fund You ask your colleague about it, but they say that they don’t know anything about it You tell them that you’re there if they ever need to talk iii) Your colleague comes to you and confesses You both go to explain to your boss what happened

If there are three people in the group the third character could be:

a) Your boss

b) Another colleague, who is sure that you stole the money